Re: Re: Green Island / Ile Verte (St.Pierre-Miquelon NFLD) cafr

Xavier asked:

3. Does "island" in the 1972-official Agreement ("île", in the
official French version of that Agreement) deal with any rock, or
only with real island? I mean, could we consider that the rocks in
the area of Little Green Island are real islands themselves, or only
rocks?

Rocks that are dry at normal high tide are generally considered subject 
to claim as territory, and they do generate territorial sea.  Drying 
rocks and low-tide elevations (those rocks and areas of the sea floor 
that are sometimes flooded and sometimes dry) are uninhabitable, so 
therefore are not considered territory.  They do, however, generate 
territorial sea of their own if they themselves are within territorial 
sea generated by permanently dry land; but they do not otherwise.

        "I am a rock, I am an island."
                    --Simon and Garfunkel

Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA 



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